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Meet the vertical automated grocery store

Boston-based startup Urbx aims to build its futuristic stores in cities across the country and provide micro-fulfillment technology to retailers.

By Jeff Wells • March 22, 2021

Schnucks opening new store format focused on fresh

The first Schnucks Fresh location will debut this summer in Jasper, Indiana. 

By Catherine Douglas Moran • March 12, 2021

Sprouts details 20 upcoming locations as it pivots to smaller stores

The specialty grocer plans to open stores across seven states and debut a new format centered on efficiency and a "treasure hunt shopping experience."

By Catherine Douglas Moran • March 08, 2021

Dollar Tree eyes at least 3K locations for rural concept stores

A new format that combines the retailer's namesake brand with Family Dollar's aims for smaller, underserved markets. 

By Ben Unglesbee • March 05, 2021

Inside the store: Foxtrot Market's first location in Washington, DC

The digitally focused upscale convenience store chain is preparing to debut another store in the nation’s capital later in March and also has two more locations planned for the city.

By Sam Silverstein • March 03, 2021

Hy-Vee is bringing nail salons into select stores

The first in-store W Nail Bar salon is slated to open in early April in Bettendorf, Iowa, with several more planned to debut later this year.

By Catherine Douglas Moran • March 03, 2021

Foxtrot Market opens first store in Washington, DC

The new location is the first of two the upscale convenience store chain has planned in the nation's capital as it looks beyond its existing markets of Chicago and Dallas.

By Sam Silverstein • March 01, 2021

Study: 59% of US shoppers see Amazon Go as a threat to Walmart, Kroger

Stores similar to Amazon's cashierless convenience locations appeal to more than half of U.S. consumers, according to a Piplsay survey. 

By Catherine Douglas Moran • Feb. 24, 2021

The inconvenient truth about drugstores

By filling up stores with junk food, tobacco and other high-margin goods, these retailers may be risking loyalty and market share in other key categories.

By Daphne Howland • Feb. 10, 2021

Aldi to open 100 stores this year

The hard discounter is also expanding curbside pickup to 500 additional stores and breaking ground on a new regional headquarters in Alabama.

By Jeff Wells • Feb. 10, 2021

Food Lion toasts to a second liquor outlet

The new location, which is adjacent to a Food Lion grocery store in South Carolina, comes more than five years after the grocery chain opened its first liquor store. 

By Catherine Douglas Moran • Jan. 26, 2021

Grocery Outlet adds two members to board as it eyes long-term growth

The new directors include the chief marketing officer of an artificial intelligence firm and a former top-level CPG executive.

By Sam Silverstein • Jan. 21, 2021

Choice Market readies frictionless store in Denver

The location, which will offer a wider range of grocery products than the chain’s other stores, is set to open in March.

By Sam Silverstein • Jan. 19, 2021

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Pardon the Disruption

Grocery Dive's column by Senior Editor Jeff Wells looks at the forces shaping food retail.

PCC Community Markets hails green building milestone

The Seattle-area food co-op said it's the first grocer to have a Living Building Challenge Petal-certified store after years of working to meet “rigorous” health and environmental guidelines.

By Catherine Douglas Moran • Dec. 02, 2020

Walmart adds 'pop-up' direct-to-consumer fulfillment capacity at 42 distribution centers

The model allows the retailer to increase capacity when it's experiencing peak-level volume and scale down when demand dissipates.

By Matt Leonard • Nov. 13, 2020

Rite Aid leans on pharmacists in rebranding effort

The drugstore chain is also embracing its potential as a beauty retailer, placing beauty ambassadors in some stores with a "spa-like" environment.

By Daphne Howland • Nov. 09, 2020

Eataly expands grocery delivery in four US cities

The Italian market is building up its operations for same-day delivery by linking up with Mercato's digital ordering platform.

By Rosie Bradbury • Nov. 05, 2020

Meijer introduces third small-format grocery store

Capital City Market, which opened Wednesday in Lansing, Michigan, mimics the open-air, market-style feel of Meijer's other small-concept stores in the state.

By Jessica Dumont • Oct. 16, 2020

Whole Foods opens Ideal Market store in Denver

Named after the Boulder, Colorado-based brand acquired by Whole Foods, the 22,500-square-foot store includes a beauty boutique and "bottle bar" filled with local products.

By Catherine Douglas Moran • Oct. 09, 2020

Aldi prepares to open large Philadelphia store

The new store features a 15,000-square-foot selling floor and is the grocer's first location in the city to appear in a mixed-use development.

By Sam Silverstein • UPDATED: Nov. 23, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

Zero-waste online grocer raises $3M

Zero Grocery pursued the additional funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing its total capital raised to $4.7 million. 

By Jessica Dumont • Sept. 25, 2020

Giant Food rolls out mobile flu vaccine clinics

The Landover, Maryland-based grocer is the first Ahold Delhaize brand to offer the service, which will last through October.

By Rosie Bradbury • Sept. 23, 2020

Hy-Vee opens shoe stores inside a pair of supermarkets

Two DSW "shop-in-shops" have opened at Hy-Vee locations in the Minneapolis area, with four additional stores scheduled to open over the next two weeks.

By Rosie Bradbury • Sept. 22, 2020

Amazon opens second Go Grocery store

Six months after its Seattle debut, Go Grocery is now live in nearby Redmond with hot foods prepared on-site and an expanded assortment of baby products.

By Rosie Bradbury • Sept. 09, 2020